Pat Snyder is a painter from Tennessee. She enjoys painting on large, often unstretched, canvases primarily using acrylics and mixed media. During her demo she gave us an inside look at her approaches to composition, technique, and her creative flow!

"Like early modernists, such as Miro, I begin my paintings with an automatic drawing: no purpose, no plan, no research. I let my unconscious take control. One mark leads to another. Emotions and feelings move my brush. Color is added and I begin to respond to what gives me energy. I add more marks, scraps of paper or material. As the painting begins to take form, I may become aware of my unconscious moving to the conscious – a headline from the news, patterns from clothing I wore when I was younger, the colors of the fruits and vegetables I saw at the produce stand. I step back and observe the feelings and emotions the painting provokes.  I repeat this process until I am satisfied by what I see."

   - P. Snyder

Pat Snyder's Abstract Journey